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Eriksson Begins Play At NCAA Championships Today

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RICHMOND, Ky. –
Eastern Kentucky sophomore Johan Eriksson will begin play at the 2011 Division I Men’s Golf Championships on Thursday at Wolf Run Golf Club in Zionsville, Ind., site of the Indiana Regional.

Eriksson will begin round one play on hole No. 1 at 9:50 a.m.

The six 54-hole regional tournaments will be conducted Thursday-Saturday. The lowest scoring five teams and lowest scoring individual not on those teams will advance from each regional to the finals scheduled for May 31-June 5 at Karsten Creek in Stillwater, Okla.

Eriksson finished in a three-way tie for first place at the Ohio Valley Conference Championship in April. Since the other two players were on the winning team, Jacksonville State, Eriksson received the OVC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Golf Championships.

The Stockholm, Sweden native has a 75.5 stroke average this season. He finished five shots under par at the rain shortened OVC Championship. Eriksson fired back-to-back rounds of 69 and 70.

Eriksson is the second Colonel in the past three years to play in the NCAA regional. Trey Bowling earned an at-large spot in 2009.

The course at Wolf Run Golf Club is as diverse as its scenery, yet tests every facet of the player's ability. With narrow fairways and firm, fast greens surrounded by dramatic and strategic bunkering, players quickly realize that all the shots are required to play Wolf Run. Wolf Run's par three holes require intense strategy and range from a short, downhill shot of 132 yards to a small green that boarders Eagle Creek to another that requires the player to carry his tee shot more than 230 yards from a severe drop off to a green heavily surrounded by deep bunkers.

Many of the par four holes demand long drives and carefully carved approaches to small targets, while others require precision in order for the player to find the best angle to attack the pin. Holes three, ten, and seventeen make up the par fives and are as beautiful, yet as challenging as any in America. As a result, Wolf Run is a thinking man's course, where a player at the top of his game would be offered strategic and at times heroic options on every hole.
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